Henri Gervex | Academic painter

Henri Gervex (Paris, 10 December 1852 - 7 June 1929) was a French painter who studied painting under Alexandre Cabanel, Pierre-Nicolas Brisset and Eugène Fromentin.

His early work belonged almost exclusively to the mythological genre, which served as an excuse for the painting of figure, but not always in the best of taste.

His Rolla of 1878, based on a poem by Alfred de Musset, was rejected by the jury of the Salon de Paris for immorality, since it depicted a scene from the poem of a naked prostitute after having sex with her client.

The Nobel Peace Prize

The Nobel Peace Prize (Swedish, Norwegian: Nobels fredspris) is one of the five Nobel Prizes established by the will of Swedish industrialist, inventor, and armaments manufacturer Alfred Nobel, along with the prizes in Chemistry, Physics, Physiology or Medicine and Literature.

Since March 1901, it has been awarded🎨 annually (with some exceptions) to those who have "done the most or the best work for fraternity between nations, for the abolition or reduction of standing armies and for the holding and promotion of peace congresses".

Mahatma Gandhi Statue on Marina Chennai, India 1954 | Roy Chowdhury (1899-1975) | Indian sculptor

Rabindranath Tagore | Metaphorical painter | Page 1

Born in Calcutta into a wealthy Brahmo family, Rabindranath Tagore went on to become one of the most revered poet-philosophers of his time.

In 1913, he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature, the first non-Westerner to be honored with the award.

A poet, author, playwright and artist, Tagore's creative output was immense.

What began as doodling on his working manuscripts became an obsession after 1930 and continued throughout the last ten years of his life.

Olga Boznanska | Impressionist painter | Page.²

Olga Boznańska (1865-1940)🎨 was born in Kraków, Poland and later active in Munich and Paris.

She primarily created portraits, and received numerous prizes🎨 and awards for them.

For her portrait of painter Paweł Nauen, for example, she was awarded a gold medal🎨 by Archduke Karl Ludwik of Vienna, and in London for her portrait Miss Mary Breme - a distinction.

In 1896, the jury of the Société des Beaux-Arts in Paris accepted one of her paintings for an exhibition.

Sandro Botticelli | Life and Artwoks

Sadro Botticelli, original name Alessandro di Mariano Filipepi (born 1445, Florence [Italy]-died May 17, 1510, Florence), one of the greatest painters of the Florentine Renaissance. His The Birth of Venus and Primavera are often said to epitomize for modern viewers the spirit of the Renaissance.

Early life and career

Botticelli’s name is derived from that of his elder brother Giovanni, a pawnbroker who was called Botticello (“Little Barrel”).

As is often the case with Renaissance artists, most of the modern information about Botticelli’s life and character derives from Giorgio Vasari’s Lives of the Most Eminent Painters, Sculptors and Architects, as supplemented and corrected from documents.

Johannes Vermeer | Artistic style

Vermeer (1632-1675) may have first executed his paintings tonally like most painters of his time, using either monochrome shades of grey ("grisaille") or a limited palette of browns and greys ("dead coloring"), over which he would apply more saturated colors (reds, yellows and blues) in the form of transparent glazes. No drawings have been positively attributed to Vermeer, and his paintings offer few clues to preparatory methods.

There is no other 17th-century artist who employed the exorbitantly expensive pigment lapis lazuli (natural ultramarine) either so lavishly or so early in his career.

Vermeer used this in not just elements that are naturally of this colour; the earth colours umber and ochre should be understood as warm light within a painting's strongly lit interior, which reflects its multiple colours onto the wall. In this way, he created a world more perfect than any he had witnessed.

Norman Lindsay (1879-1969)

Norman Alfred William Lindsay, in breve Norman Lindsay è stato un artista, scultore e scrittore Australiano. È stato anche fumettista editoriale, scala modellatore, e un dilettante boxer. È nato a Creswick nel Victoria.

Lindsay era figlio di un chirurgo anglo-irlandese Robert Charles William Alexander Lindsay (1843-1915) e Jane Elizabeth Lindsay (1848-1932), figlia del reverendo Thomas Williams. Lindsay è il quinto figlio di dieci figli tra cui Percy Lindsay (1870-1952), Lionel Lindsay (1874-1961), Ruby Lindsay (1885-1919), e Daryl Lindsay (1889-1976).

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